The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-18
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT the county Jail in Chicago on the
morning OF the 10th the officials Were
startled by q lloyd report that proceeded
from the cell of the Anarchist, Louis Lingg
and upon investigation it was discovered
that the desperate man had mutilated his
face horribly by exploding Illuminating
cap in his mouth. He survived his injuries
| about six hours, death ensuing about three
o'clock in the afternoon
A Clubhouse on an Arkansas cotton plan
tation was destroyed by fire on the 10th,
four men perishing IN the flames
The building occupied by the Detroit
EVemiag eos was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 10th.
GOVERNOR LARRABEE's plurality in Iowa ct
Che recent election was on the 10th placed
at about 16, 900 and his majority at 5000
The Republican majority in the Legislature
will be 80 with one seat in doubt
WILLIAM NJ. LOCKE o retired banker who
had lost most of his wealth by unfortunate
speculation, committed suicide on the 10th
by shooting at Des Motnes, Ia
The seventh annual session of the Ma
tional Farmers Congress commenced in
Chicago on the 10th The president
Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia, deliv-
cred an address.
Two WHITE men had, it was reported on
the 18th, been lynched near Shreveport.
La, for living with colored women, and a
negro met the same fate for living with a
white woman. The people were determined
to stop miscegenation.
ESTIMATES made on the 18th for new
lights and repairs to lighthouses in Michi-
gan for the next fiscal year foot up 1920
600 saga
OFFICER HENRY SMITH, of Chicago, who
has just recovered from wounds received at
the Haymarket riot, was attacked by an
Anarchist on the 18th, who attempted first
to choke and then to shoot him. The man
was arrested
The official returns of the recent election
in Ohio received on the 18th a Republican
plurality of 5S,052; Democrats, 34,499;
net Republican, 23,353 The Senate stands:
Republicans, 25; Democrats, IL; the House,
Republicans, "a; Democrats, III
FIRE destroyed the large cotton shed of
Brooks, Nicely & Co., at Memphis, Tenn, on
the 18th, with SO, 900 bales of cotton. Loss.
$275,O insurance 100000
AUGUST SPIES, Albert R Parsons. Adolph
Fischer and George Engel, four of the con
victed Anarchist conspirators who were ad-
judged guilty of the murderous slaughter of
seven policemen at the Haymarket in Chi
cago in May, 1886, were hanged in the
county Jail at 11:57 clock, on the morning
of the 18th The execution took place in
the presence of small assemblage of peo-
pie and was devoid of sensational incidents
The men met their fate stoically.
SIXTEEN cases of yellow fever were re-
ported on the / 1th at Manatee, Fla.
Prcr
David Corker, was hanged on the 18th at
Lafayette. Ore
The convention of the American Public
Health Association at Memphis Tenn, came
to an end on the 11th DR. Charles N. Hew-
int of Red Wing, Mimi, was elected presi-
dent
The funeral of August Spies Albert R
Parsons, Louis Lingg, Adolph Fischer and
George Engel, the dead Chicago Anarchists
occurred on the 18th. 1t was the oeca-
sion for large gathering of their friends
and sympathizers, but the event passed off
very quietly. The bodies were taken from
their homes and procession was formed
to the depot, where all who wished took
trains for the cemetery. Speeches were
delivered, after which the bodies were placed
in vault
AT Seveor Station, Md, the house of Ste
ven Culver was burned on the 18th, and
Culver, with his two children, was burned
to death while endeavorins to escape from
the building.
FRLDEN and Schwab, che Chicago An
archists whose death sentences were COM
muted to life imprisonment by Governor
ogsesby, were taken 30 Joliet on the 18th.
Before leaving the jail they were accorded
interviews with their families and friends.
HE convention of the Farmers National
Association came to an end in Chicago on
the 18th R NJ Kolb. of Eufala, Ala, was
elected president